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An Overview of the Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem

To prove the theorem we follow the program outlined by Serre in [16]. Fix a prime p 5 and suppose a,b,c 2 Z satisfy ap + bp + cp = 0 but abc 6= 0. The triple (ap,bp,cp) is what Gerhard Frey has called a “remark- able” triple of integers, so remarkable in fact, that we suspect it …

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